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Noun

1. mother tongue

2. maternal language, natural language, tongue

Usage
Want to learn a South African language? Your options are limited – here’s why - The Conversation
Opinion | Addressing language barrier in early grade learning - The Kathmandu Post
languages by number of native speakers - Britannica
Some of Robert Munsch's work to be translated into four Yukon First Nations languages - CBC
Regional queer cinema blooms with first Cebuano-language GL film - MindaNews
'We're trying to save Jersey's language and identity' - BBC
International Mother Language Day 21 February - Welcome to the United Nations
FIFA World Cup 2026: Brazilian referee explains red card in English, becomes viral meme as nobody understands - Gulf News
More than words: multilingual language program helps immigrant families preserve cultural ties - University of Alberta
An America First Language Curriculum - Minding The Campus
In Brazil, Kindness Is the First Language Migrants Hear - International Organization for Migration
Celebrating International Mother Language Day: Advancing multilingual education and linguistic diversity - UNESCO
The Cherokee Bible, one of the language’s first books, is a window between worldviews - Religion News Service
Your first programming language should be Go, not JavaScript - How-To Geek
Scientists think they have learned exactly when and how humans created the first language - Earth.com
Building The Plane While Flying: Kazakhstan’s Digital-First Language Reform, Or Global Blueprint Vs. Kazakh Reality – OpEd - Eurasia Review
Mothers And Kids Sync Brain Activity, Even in Non-Native Languages - ScienceAlert
Bilingual Creativity Gap: Native Language Sparks Brighter Ideas - Neuroscience News
The Bangkok Priorities for Action on First Language-based Multilingual Education - UNESCO
Trying your best in a second language? Here’s why native speakers seem so rude - The Conversation
PSU, tribes work together to reawaken Oregon’s sleeping languages - OregonLive.com
Bad Bunny’s First And Only English Words At The Super Bowl Halftime Show Were About America - Forbes
Maasai youth advocate empowers indigenous children through mother tongue education - UNESCO
INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY - February 21, 2026 - National Day Calendar
First Diabetes Information Website in ASL Launches - University of Utah Health
Dinner Was the Date: How Food Became the First Language of Black Love - EBONY Magazine
'Language is a need': Ojibwe, Dakota speakers work to preserve, revive Indigenous languages - MPR News
Eiza Gonzalez Felt 'Self-Conscious' About Not Speaking English as a First Language in Hollywood - People.com
Where are the most endangered languages in the world? - Al Jazeera
Brainwaves of mothers and children synchronize when playing together – even in an acquired language - Frontiers
‘Is English your first language?’: Indian-origin woman fired from UK job after failing to communicate wit - The Times of India
Tripura, Ramakrishna Mission sign pact for Northeast’s first language school - India Today NE
Mother-Child Brainwave Syncing Defeats the Language Barrier - Neuroscience News
International Mother Language Day: Concerns Over Unfair and Exclusionary Language Policies in Afghanistan - 8am.media
Opinion: What Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show teaches us about singing in one’s native language - The Mercury News
He Kaiming's First Language Model: 105M Parameters, Avoiding GPT's Old Autoregressive Path - 36 Kr
Decolonizing mental health: how native languages reshape depression network architecture in 31,276 Peruvians - Nature
Why I'll always speak my mother language of Bangla, while embracing a new life in Canada - CBC
10 Most-spoken Languages in the World (2 Are From India) - HowStuffWorks
40,000-Year-Old Signs Found in Europe Could Be Humanity’s First Language - GreekReporter.com
Language, power and belonging in Southeast Asia - Monash Lens
What’s the best age to learn a new language? - Care.com
Mother Tongue: The language of the heart - Western Cape Government
Singing in First Languages: Where might non-Indigenous teachers start? - Monash University
Knesset moves to recognize official sign language of Israel - The Jerusalem Post
Protect Mother Language to Protect Environment - Ukhrul Times
“When Languages Die, Cultures Die”: IADS-UNILAG Marks International Mother Language Day with Urgent Call for Revival - University Of Lagos
Ranked: The World’s Most Spoken Languages by Total Speakers - Visual Capitalist
International Mother Language Day 2026: A Brain-Friendly Case For Speaking The Language You Grew Up With - ETV Bharat
Should all kids learn English as their first foreign language? Finland's second-largest city grapples with a hot-button issue - Yle
Children learn best in their first language-Radrodro - Fijivillage
Over 80,000 fail Marathi first language paper in Maharashtra Class 10, sparks concern - India Today
Bill to make English an official language of NZ introduced to Parliament - RNZ
The Bangkok Priorities for Action on First Language-based Multilingual Education - UNESCO
The Primacy of Prosody in Bilingual Reading Comprehension: Uncovering Morpholexical Pathways in First-Language Chinese and Phonolexical Pathways in Second-Language English - National Institutes of Health (.gov)
How researchers refer to individuals with schizophrenia: person-first and identity-first language in academic papers - Nature
‘First Language,’ the EP - fordhamobserver.com
Ministry wants Population Register to list up to 2 native languages ​​ - ERR
Mother tongue matters in an English-dominated society - Daily Maverick
Basic Education minister says mother-tongue language should not be a barrier to learning - EWN
The strange persistence of first languages - Big Think
The MDDA elevates indigenous languages on International Mother Language Day 2026 - Bizcommunity
People-First Language Matters. So Does the Rest of the Story. - The Marshall Project
Why honoring home languages matters in education - SmartBrief
New Cherokee Language Efforts Aimed for All Generations - Native News Online
People First Language Guide Offers New Resources for Journalists Covering the Criminal Justice System - FWD.us
Why God’s First Language Is Not Silence - The Living Church
The role of first language skills, working memory, and anxiety in second language reading - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
UNESCO launch of "Bhasha Matters: State of the Education Report for - UNESCO
What It’s Like to Lose Your First Language - Electric Literature
Minnesota Wild and FanDuel Sports Network to Hold First-Ever Ojibwe-Language Broadcast of NHL Game - NHL.com
Re-examining second language acquisition of English reflexives: new evidence for lexical learning driven process and against first language Transfer - Nature
Food as First Language: Mike Curato on the Validation of Learning to Cook Filipino Food - Literary Hub
Planning to take a degree taught in English when it’s not your first language? Here are some tips for success - The Conversation
Identity-first vs. person-first language is an important distinction - Association of Health Care Journalists
Aren Alaverdyan: The hearing child whose native language is sign language - The Armenian Weekly
New global research shows eye movements reveal how native languages shape reading - The Conversation
It’s the language of S.F.’s first Chinese immigrants. Can it survive another generation? - San Francisco Chronicle
Losing my Spanish feels like losing part of myself - Chalkbeat
First language first: community-based literacy programmes for minority - UNESCO
When talking about opioid use disorder, language matters - Michigan State University
In more places this year, people can vote in their first language - Center for Public Integrity
Language combinations of multilinguals are reflected in their first-language knowledge and processing - Nature
Person-First Language Is Not Enough - Urban Institute
Embracing Spanglish as My First Language Validates My "Kinda Sabo" Identity - Popsugar
Can you lose your native language? - BBC
Why Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner speaks German as his first language - Diario AS
Trump praises Liberia's president on his mastery of English — his native tongue and the African nation's official language - CBS News
How speaking in a second language directly affects your moral judgement - The Conversation
Larry Fleet On Going Overseas & Connecting With Fans Who Don’t Even Speak English As A First Language: “They Really Listen, They Care” - Whiskey Riff
Nigeria cancels mother-tongue teaching in primary schools and reverts to English - BBC
Karnataka Objects To Kerala's Move Mandating Malayalam As First Language In Kannada-Medium Schools - ETV Bharat
Exploring how our first language is echoed in our genes - Medical Xpress
Navigating accent bias in German: children's social preferences for a second-language accent over a first-language regional accent - Frontiers
First language effects on incidental vocabulary learning through bimodal input - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Person-First Language May Mitigate Stigmatization in Lung Cancer Screening - CancerNetwork
Neural Representations of Non-native Speech Reflect Proficiency and Interference from Native Language Knowledge - Journal of Neuroscience
Shared and distinct neural correlates of first and second language morphological processing in bilingual brain - Nature
Constructivist Approaches to First Language Acquisition - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Share of indigenous or native language speakers in Latin America in 2018, by country - Statista
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'first language'
Language Equivalent   Language Equivalent
French    Spanish
Misspellings - Typos
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Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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